What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I mean, adding heated seat elements to the rear seats can't be much different than adding them to the front seats, right?

 

Ehhh tbh I personally wouldn't go to the trouble, I don't have people in my backseat often enough when its cold enough for heaters.

 

Straightened out the passenger step that had been unexpectedly reposirioned during my trip to ouray Colorado last year. That was easy.

 

I carry precious cargo back there and often travel to frigid climates. F Toyota because they don't offer heated seats in the back. I'm done with this truck. BTW, Does anyone know if the Ridgeline has heated rear seats? Asking for a friend.

 

lol, my wife's Impreza has Hill Hold... and I absolutely hate it. I'm sure if I drove her car more I'd get used to it, but I always end up over or under-revving on a slope and it drives me nuts.

 

LED license plate light upgrade and off road tow hook replacement courtesy of @jay_zed

 

Boring day. cleaned off the dried mud from yesterday and finally got around to ordering the Weathertech mudflaps that I've been meaning to get for quite a while.

 

You'd get used to it in no time. And prolly like it.
My '17 SR MT has hill hold. Works very well and I find myself counting on it. A time or two I try to react too early, but tbh, by the time I realized I jumped the gun, it has already released and I'm back in charge.
It truly offers peace of mind in butt-sniffing-close traffic on steep inclines.
Now, I don't have a prob with working a clutch on a hill in traffic. Been doing it too long and with too many types of vehicles. My '42 Studebaker has it and once I experienced it at a very young age (rookie driver) I took a shine to the feature. Happy as hell my Taco has it! (Stude I think is who invented the "hill holder", but I don't know that for sure.)

 

It is bad. Very bad. No way in hell I would ever buy a house with a driveway like this one has.
It belongs to the landlord of a crashpad I use when I'm in town for work. My home is in another state and it has a beautifully flat (slight drainage) driveway for 3 cars. This damn crashpad drive, not only is Mt. Mutherfucker, but it is also only paved in the middle spot. When other roomies are there (first) then I park in the mud. Really nothing good about it except that it was available when everything else was full.

 

The Taco I drove was my 2001 TRD. It had Clutch Start Cancel but I never heard of Hill Hold. Please explain.

 

Installed my TE37

 

Toyota uses the brake system. When the truck is on an incline and the brakes are applied by the driver, the truck will keep the brakes engaged for about 1 to 1.5 seconds after the brake pedal is released. This is to allow the driver to get his foot off the brake pedal and on the accelerator pedal to start driving - without rolling backwards.
Works when the nose or tail is up-hill. (For a long time I thought it was for nose-high only situations.)

 

What a nightmare parking situation. Maybe some day you will come across something better. That sucks.

 

wait... your taco has hill hold but mine doesn't? Or did I misunderstand that part?

 

Mine has it.

Damn I love this '17 SR! Finding out all sorts of bennies with it that other are missing out on.
You know how it works just from your wife car. But for others...
Try it out. Point your nose up-hill somewhere, hold the brake for a second; keep the clutch in and release the brakes. It should hesitate for a wee bit and a half before rolling backwards.

My wife's '16 CR-V had the same feature and that car was an AT.

 

It sounds more like he's engaging 4x4 for the 2Low mod. The reverse in the MT's is pretty tall so it can be difficult to back up an incline without stalling or slipping the clutch too much. 2Low drops the ratio back down to a more manageable ratio.

 

My 2017 with AT has it as well.

 

Lol, I've been commuting into and out of Boston with the truck since November on many Google guided tours of the suburbs and side streets with lots of hills. Pretty sure I would've noticed. Maybe I disabled it while digging through the configuration settings and completely forgot about it. I disabled a LOT of shit when I first got the truck. I still vent periodically about the shit that I can't disable.

 

Gotcha. Appreciate the education about the MT's.

 

Yes, my 2020 auto trans has hill hold too.

As an experiment, on a quiet, very steep side street. I came to a full stop. Let off the brake and it held for 1-2 seconds. Did not press the gas pedal to see what would happen. Hill hold released and the truck started to roll back and the engine died.

Lost power and the brakes went hard. Not a nice sensation. Was able to stop the truck with a little extra effort and started it back up after having to quickly put it in park.